Due to NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is cramming this week’s episodes into quick, five-minute clips it’s calling “Fallon Five.” The first installment aired last night and featured a 3-minute monologue plus a timed, minute-long interview with guest Paul Rudd. NBC will continue to air “Fallon Five” segments this week […]
Continue ReadingDear Marvel Studios, Over the past few years, your production company has financed many big-budget, high-octane, insect-inspired films such as Ant-Man (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 (2019). And, considering the sheer volume of insect-films your studio has created (in such a short amount of time, no less), […]
Continue ReadingComedy fans may best know Nathan Lee Graham as Todd, the panicky assistant of Jacobim Mugatu in Zoolander and Zoolander 2. But that is merely scratching the latte-drenched surface of Graham’s body of work. He has added his certain level of glamour to guesting roles on Absolutely Fabulous, Scrubs, The Comeback, Priscilla Queen of the […]
Continue ReadingFrequent collaborators Conner O’Malley and Carmen Chrisopher are back with a brand new video today. Titled Guys Day, the short follows two friends — an Enterprise employee who really loves his job (Christopher) and a 1-800-GOT-JUNK employee who recently got kicked out of the house by his wife (O’Malley) as they head to Atlantic City […]
Continue ReadingBefore Joel McHale starred as Jeff Winger on the much-beloved Community, he became a household name as the host of The Soup, the E! series where he would give us grade-A snark about the latest round of reality TV schlock. McHale’s wit spared no one, and the show familiarized itself with audiences with recurring segments […]
Continue ReadingLast Week Tonight with John Oliver finally returned to HBO last night, and Oliver devoted most of the episode to exploring the many ways Trump has damaged the US’s reputation, from foreign relations to our country’s so-called “soft power” to, yes, even the constant onslaught of Donald Trump impersonations around the world: “Are any of these […]
Continue ReadingThe Catholic League has a bone to pick with Comedy Central – particularly Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, and Pat Bishop’s new series Corporate. After the latest episode aired this past Wednesday, the show got a surprise post-Valentine’s Day gift in the form of an outraged statement released by Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a long time coming, but the debut of the Jordan Peele-produced comedy starring Tracy Morgan, The Last O.G., is almost here. TBS just released a trailer for the series, which was ordered back in 2016 and stars Morgan as “an ex-con who is shocked to see just how much the world has changed […]
Continue ReadingRiane Konc is a Midwest-based writer who contributes frequently to The New Yorker and occasionally to Reductress, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The Rumpus’ Funny Women, and other places on the Internet. You can find more of her work at www.rianekonc.com. Konc is escaping the Midwest for one weekend in March, so if you’re in […]
Continue ReadingSometimes hard issues need a light touch, which is where comedian Jena Friedman comes in. In her new Adult Swim mini-special Soft Focus with Jena Friedman (premiering this Sunday, February 18th at midnight), she approaches issues like campus rape and the story of the Cannibal Cop with a surreal sensibility that straddles the line between […]
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